Rights

October 27, 2015

I am often asked what is it that lit a fire in my belly to fight the current vaccine law in MS.

Mandated vaccines in Mississippi *DO IN FACT* force children to be vaccinated against their doctors' written advice, against a parent's deeply held convictions that their child may be vulnerable, and against sincere religious beliefs.

I have a son who had a serious neurological event following nine vaccine doses at the age of five years old and I experienced this bureaucratic tyranny first hand.

Our son Jacob had seizures in the 72 hour window following his shots when he was five. He had no fever. He woke up the third morning following the routine nine doses, and toddled into the kitchen behind me where I was making coffee.

I heard a THUD and a groan. I turned around and my beautiful five year old boy had done a trust fall on the kitchen tile, back arched, eyes rolled back in his head, fists clenched up by his ears, grimacing and SHAKING.

He will tell you he woke up with his head under the bed, then fell in the hallway on the way to the kitchen that morning. His (at the time) seven year old brother, John, witnessed his little brother seizing on the kitchen floor while eating his cereal before his first day of second grade. When I went back to make Jacob's bed later that morning, it was soaked with urine, which is classic of seizures through the night.

Fighting the Mississippi State Department of Health

Following Jacob's vaccine induced neurological event, our pediatricians wrote to the state depth of health recommending no further vaccines. The bureaucrats in the Mississippi State Department of Health, who had never laid eyes on my child, DENIED OVERRODE REJECTED his doctors' multiple legitimate requests for medical exemption. He was not able to attend kindergarten and I was forced to keep him home. My family was literally medically terrorized by the State of Mississippi.

It was fully five years later. After four letters from our doctors, political string-pulling, and having met face to face with the State Epidemiologist and my Local Health Officer as the CoDirector of MPVR, our son finally got his desperately needed medical exemption granted. We endured all of this for missing *one* of five required pertussis doses. Jacob was otherwise fully vaccinated according to MS State Department of Health's vaccine requirements for kindergarten.

The Mississippi State Department of Health is indeed ruthless in its pursuit of first-in-the-nation vaccine coverage rates. They demonstrated clearly to me that our children are simply pawns in their agenda.

Could Jacob's event have been a coincidence? He had never had a seizure before nor since. His doctors did not believe it was a coincidence. Vaccines certainly adversely affected his nervous system just as the vaccine manufacturers' package inserts say they can.

To begin with, we delayed Jacob's shots until the age of three because of the research I had done. We have significant family history consistent with what is now considered to be fraudulent science which suggests my children would be Vaccine Vulnerable. Jacob's family history consists of terminal complications of Ulcerative Colitis in maternal uncle, Ulcerative Colitis in paternal grandmother, Celiac Disease in paternal grandfather, Celiac Disease in mother, and an older brother who was moderately Autistic as a small child.

That fraudulent science, I KNOW, saved Jacob's life. Before that science was widely accepted as fraudulent (2010), my pediatric GI offered that we should delay John's and Jacob's shots at an appointment when Jacob was a newborn and John was only two.

I often wonder what would have happened if I had allowed them to give Jacob the HepB at one day old, and the ensuing routine battery of 25 doses in the first six months?

I shudder to think what would have happened to our sweet boy. I thank God that I had faith in "fraudulent science." I thank God that we were financially able for me to be a stay-at-home mom, and that I had the freedom to prayerfully, carefully decide how to vaccinate Jacob, at least until he approached kindergarten age. Many parents don't have that option.

Certainly, that scientist who was labeled a fraud, is a hero to families like mine. One day the world will know he was simply ahead of his time, and our society chose to put money before our children. I don't believe that day is very far off.

The Ignored CDC Whistleblower

Dr. William Thompson is a Senior Scientist from the CDC's Vaccine Research Division. Dr. Thompson was one of the five authors of the paper our CDC published in 2004 claiming to disprove the vaccine/autism link. He has recently come forward confessing that he and his colleagues covered up data, literally throwing it in a garbage can, that he has "great shame" and has "stopped lying." That trashed data showed that Dr. Andrew Wakefield was RIGHT. That trashed data showed that some baby boys were at a 340% greater risk of developing Autism when given the MMR vaccine before the age of three years old.

Thompson has been granted Whistleblower Status by the Obama administration, and is still employed at the CDC.

Many, including Florida Congressman Bill Posey, are begging Congress to subpoena Dr. Thompson to testify, exposing the fraud within the CDC. But our Congress has allowed the CDC to investigate themselves.

Our Kids, Our Priority

How many children with Autism do you know? ADHD? Seizure disorder? Parents need to be looking back at shot records and connecting the dots.

We have a crisis of big government bureaucracy in Mississippi, and our families are paying the price. As long as we have vaccine mandates with no parental rights, the well-being of our kids will be at the mercy of agenda driven bureaucrats and and greedy,corrupt drug companies.

October 12, 2015

GOP presidential candidate, Dr. Ben Carson, has served as Chairman of the Board of Vaccinogen, Inc. The initial comment deleted from Carson's Facebook page by Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights Co-Director, Lindey Magee, was in response to a woman who stated: "There are no aborted fetus cells in vaccines!"

"_____ you are WRONG! The ingredients, including fetal cell lines are right there on the CDC dot gov site in the ingredients! It is reckless for you to state something so matter-of-factly when you obviously don't have a clue what you are talking about.

For the sake of my sanity, I highly recommend that you do your own research and quit relying on what main stream media reports in between the 4 pharmaceutical commercials during each commercial break.

Let me make it easy for you.

• The MRC-5 cell line was developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reasons from a 27 year old physically healthy woman.

• The WI-38 human diploid cell line was derived by L. Hayflick from normal embryonic (3-month gestation) lung tissue of a female.

• The rubella vaccine currently used in the United States and in most countries was developed after an American researcher at the Wistar Institute cultured rubella virus from a fetus harvested from the elective abortion of a mother infected with rubella. This vaccine is called RA 27/3 because the rubella virus was isolated from the 27th aborted fetus sent to the Wistar Institute in the 1964 rubella outbreak.

To see the actual ingredients and substances used during the manufacturing process check out this CDC link.

You can learn more about which vaccines contain human protein and DNA here.

Lindey reposted the above reply upon seeing it had been deleted. She also posted the following comment, using Dr. Carson's own quotes regarding mandatory vaccination to hold him accountable for what she saw as placating.

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When she was deleted so were all her comments and replies. (click on image for full size pop-up:)

Vaughn Blaylock sums this up well:

"Dr. Ben Carson supports mandatory vaccines. That is, to say, that he supports the right of government to force you to take your meds, regardless of your petty objections. This stems from an obvious belief that your government owns at least part of you, and that it certainly owns your children. He has said repeatedly that he believes that 'No parent has the right to refuse a vaccination for their child.'

When a crew of us got together and began to debate him on the subject in a respectful tone, our allies from all over the country descended upon Carson's Facebook page in support. Dr. Carson's response to all of this was to backpedal, and claim that he does support an exemption for parents, when, according to his own statements, he clearly does not.

Dr. Ben Carson served on the board of Vaccinogen. Although the existence of the 'Vaccine Court' - the Office of the Special Masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, having been established in 1986 by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act- is no secret, Dr. Carson refuses to acknowledge the thousands upon thousands of children and adults who have been seriously harmed or even killed by vaccines."

For those of us who find ourselves a #oneissuevoter for #HealthFreedom, Carson doesn't make the cut.

November 14, 2014

Mississippi's Clarion Ledger ran a front page story last month touting our state having the nation's highest vaccination rate.

"Mississippi ranks first in the nation in child vaccination rates, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control."

Of Mississippi's 45,719 kindergartners, 99.7 percent were up to date for the 2013-2014 school year. The state also had vaccination rates higher than the rest of the country for children younger than kindergarten age."

They did include this from MPVR, "Mississippi parents do not have the legal right to select, delay, or opt-out of vaccines unless they homeschool. There are 48 states that DO allow that right. We want to be the 49th. We are a group of loving parents who are pushing for the right to make vaccine decisions for our own children without losing their right to an education.

We are not "anti-vaccine"; we are "pro informed consent" and "pro parental rights" to choose what medical procedures our children undergo and when. We support the right of parents to choose their child's medical care, without being forced or coerced into accepting vaccinations in order to attend day care or public or private schools."

In response to the Clarion Ledger's article, CoDirector, Lindey Magee had this to say:

"To be clear, ranking as the most highly vaccinated state is NOT something to be proud of.

More educated states are seeing more and more parents opt out of some of the 49 doses of vaccines administered to our children before kindergarten. Ranking first in vaccination compliance only indicates that Mississippi families are being exploited for its reputation of ignorance and lack of education.It is an embarrassment, not a badge of honor.

As citizens of this state, it is time we take notice of our state's archaic vaccine law. As it is now, the state of Mississippi requires children first be vaccine-injured before a parent can begin the uphill, long battle to secure said injured child from further damage. That is barbaric! Meanwhile, forty-eight other healthier states provide religious and/or philosophical vaccine waivers.

While we have the highest vaccination rates, Mississippi also has the highest infant mortality rate in the U.S. Keep in mind that the U.S. is the most highly vaccinated country in the world; now consider that as a nation, our infant mortality rate falls below 27 other wealthy countries-some of which do not even mandate vaccines at all! Mississippi has the most highly vaccinated pediatric population IN THE WORLD. Why then are we the LEAST healthy? Yes, poverty and crap food, etc. plays a part, but too many vaccines too soon cannot be ignored.

I implore those who buy into this "vaccines must be mandated" notion that uses seriously dangerous diseases like polio and smallpox to sell 30+ doses of vaccines to all babies by six months to reexamine the topic. I was born in 1979 and received 10 doses of vaccines by high school. Where will it end? Mandated medicine is a slippery slope and is affecting a generation of over-vaccinated children!

As a MS parent or grandparent are you interested yet? Are you outraged? I am. Parents in other states are. There are parents everywhere talking about what our unsafe, unchecked vaccine program did to their children. Meanwhile, neither pharmaceutical companies nor the doctors and nurses who administer these vaccines can be held legally liable when they do cause harm and death. (National Child Vaccine Injury Act of 1986) Vaccines can and do cause harm and death. There is no incentive for vaccine manufacturers to make vaccines safe or effective.

Parents have children suffering diabetes, allergies, asthma, seizures and other chronic autoimmune diseases-many listed as adverse events in the vaccine manufacturer inserts, while officials fixate on Ebola and can't wait to debut their untested vaccine for that. Will THAT vaccine be mandated? What about Gardasil? If mandated, as the law is now, you will have NO CHOICE. What about now? Are you interested now?

There is no room for corporate, government parenting in a free society. Our vaccination program is a government program. So many hesitate to trust the government; why should the government be guardian of our children regarding vaccinations?

Most parents do want to vaccinate. Forty-eight other states, including those that border our own allow parents to work with their doctors to determine the best way to do this for their unique child. Parents in Mississippi just want options. We are due the same fundamental rights parents in 48 other states have. This is a personal rights issue. Those who are so certain vaccines are the be-all, end-all to children's health should not be at all threatened by families seeking vaccine rights.

Parents must speak for and be judicious for our children! Doctors and the MS Department of Health brag about high vaccination rates, but fail to notice that while our kids are the most vaccinated on earth they are also the sickest! If vaccines equal health, Mississippi would be the healthiest place in the world, and it absolutely is not. Please, parents, get interested in this!"

October 28, 2014

It has been brought to our attention that the Director of Nursing from the MS State Department of Health (MSDOH), Kay Henry, during a recent presentation given at the Mississippi Nurses Association Convention specifically spoke about our organization (Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights) and is asking all nurses to call their legislators and tell them NOT to support MPVR's bill for personal belief/religious vaccine rights for MS parents!

The MSDOH nurse also announced that she spoke to the Executive Director of the MS Nurses' Association (MNA) and asked MNA to also come out publicly against our bill for personal belief/religious vaccine rights for MS parents by actively lobbying against us. MNA does have a professional PAID lobbyist!

We need ALL of our supporting nurses to go NOW and call and/or email the MNA's Political Action Committee and Executive Director Teresa Malone at:

Tmalone@msnurses.org 601.898.0670

Please let her know:• You are an active member of MPVR who 1. Supports parental rights regarding the schedule of 49 vaccines by kindergarten in a state where the children are the most heavily vaccinated in the WORLD yet are the most unhealthy in the US. 2. believes that MS parents deserve the same rights 48 other healthier states have including all of our bordering states.

• (You are also a member of MNA -if that be the case) You feel that she will alienate the many nurses in this state who believe in the parents right to choose for their children.

While MS parents DO NOT have a paid professional lobbyist, our only hope is for our members to TAKE ACTION. Without your voice, our cause is without hope.

PLEASE SHARE personally across social media and encourage others to share with friends who are nurses and in other nursing organizations and groups in MS.

Thank you for fighting with us,Lindey MageeMaryJo PerryCoDirectors, MPVR

Regardless of where you stand personally regarding vaccination, doesn't every nurse owe their first allegiance and responsibility to the patient? The Department of Health nurse Kay Henry prefaced her discussion of Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights by bragging about Mississippi's high vaccination rates. She gives her allegiance to numbers.

October 15, 2014

We hear more and more stories regarding the lack of informed consent and the overreach of medicine into our children's schools and our own workplaces. This is one such story happening in McComb, Mississippi, shared by Rebecca Carter.

As I unpacked my daughter's school bag during the first week of October I found a letter about the school’s FluMist School Vaccination Program. The letter stated that the local Children’s Clinic had teamed up with our private school to help immunize the students against the flu. It stated that a consent form was attached so that parents could review and agree to have their child vaccinated while at school on October 16.

I discovered that there was no Vaccine Information Sheet included so I made a phone call to the school the following Monday. The headmaster was out, but was able to speak with the elementary principal. I explained to her my concern that there was not an Information Sheet sent home with the concent form. I told her that for a parent to engage in informed consent that the information must be presented to that parent before they can consent. I asked her to please have the Vaccine Information Sheet sent home with a new consent form, and to do away with the consent forms that were previously signed.

The principal also mentioned to me that she didn’t know what I’d want to do with my daughter that day since it was a live virus and she wondered about her being around WC, my son who was previously immunosuppressed. That opened an opportunity for us to discuss shedding and how that was a major concern of mine as well. I also shared with her that the school being liable if a reaction occurred was another real concern of mine.

A day later, a new notice showed up in the school bag. More FluMist Information…well, not really.

The school sent home another FluMist consent form but this time is was from the State of Florida’s Department of Health. (A perfect example as to why the school shouldn’t try to run a medical facility.)

The principal must not have understood what I was asking her to include. So, I did what I’m good at and I took matters into my own hands. I went to the local Children’s Clinic and requested the FluMist Vaccine Information Statement for the FluMist that would be given at the school. The nice lady at the counter promptly returned with the information and then I asked her why this information wasn’t given to the parents in the first place? This time she promptly went and found some help.

Another lady approached the counter. She commented that she didn’t know why they (the school) do not send out the Vaccine Information Statement with the consent form. Even when I asked her if it was the Children’s Clinic’s duty to provide this information for the parents since the clinic would be the ones administering the vaccines she said, “no, they (school) do all of the paperwork, we just go out there and do it (administer vaccine) as a courtesy for them.”

What I discovered later was that the information that had originally been sent home in my daughter's bag was actually sent from the Children’s Clinic. The nurse at the Children’s Clinic clearly stated on several occasions that the school was the one responsible for the information that was sent to parents, yet the letter was signed, ****** Children’s Clinic. I hate that I didn’t realize this while I was at the clinic so that it could have been addressed properly.

What I learned from my visit to the Children’s Clinic was that they are very unconcerned with making sure parents know what the risks are before having their children vaccinated. The nurse there did her best to put the blame somewhere else.

Nevertheless, I took the FluMist Vaccine Information Statement to the school and presented it to the elementary principal. She looked it over and agreed to send it out to all of the students and even thanked me for bringing it to her. However, it hasn’t shown up in LC’s school bag yet and it’s the Tuesday before vaccination day on Thursday.

My main concerns from the very beginning with this situation were:

Does the school have the students’ best interest in mind?

Have they provided the proper information for the students’ parents to make an informed decision?

Is the school prepared to handle an adverse reaction situation if it were to occur at the school?

Has the school provided the proper information to protect it from liability?

Shedding!

Schools are supposed to be a place where we send our children to get an education.Schools are not medical clinics and vaccines should not be administered in schools where the students’ do not have a parent present.

I highly doubt the school’s readiness to handle an adverse reaction situation were it to happen. The reason that I am doubtful is because most people think that it will not ever happen “here” until it actually does. In my opinion, if the school continues to offer the FluMist program, eventually someone will have an adverse reaction.

So far, I do not believe that the school has provided enough information for parents to make an informed decision. They may have provided the minimum information necessary to meet informed consent, but this is our children that we are talking about. In this case, we parents deserve more than the minimum. I believe that if a child has an adverse reaction after receiving the FluMist vaccine at my child’s school, the parents are going to be at that office demanding an explanation as to why they weren’t provided with information about possible risks of the vaccination.

I don’t think the school has really thought about the potential risks that this could bring upon the students. It is my prayer that they would reconsider.

Shedding, a topic that was brought up to me by the principal herself, is also something that the administration has clearly not thought through. If they had, they would realize the potential risks of contracting the flu virus even for those who chose to forgo the vaccine itself.

Rebecca Carter is a wife, mom and vaccine rights advocate who despite forgoing the FluMist vaccine for her own children went out of her way to make certain that other parents had the information they need in order to provide true informed consent. MPVR received reports from several parents regarding this issue. We are horrified that a children's clinic together with a private school would act so carelessly and irresponsibly regarding the children in their care.

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Did you know, regarding FluMist?

Shedding is real. FluMist is a live vaccine. Take a look at the above package insert. This is taken from the insert from the vaccine that will be administered at Parklane Academy tomorrow.

What this table means is that among children age 6 months to 17 years, who received FluMist, between 1-7% of them were shedding the live virus through nasal secretions for up to 28 days post vaccination.

The insert warns about transmission to "immunocompromised household contacts."What about classmates?Children in a school setting spend 7-8 hours together in close quarters, five days a week. Many of these children have allergies and asthma and other immune conditions that make them more vulnerable to infections.

Don't parents have a right to know other children are contagious and are spreading the flu? AS A RESULT OF GETTING THE VACCINE! I'd go so far as to say that recently vaccinated children should stay out of the classroom until they are no longer contagious.

Also form that same insert:

...clinical significance that delivered doses were detected in the brain stomach and lungs of ADULTS is unknown.

...has NOT been evaluated for its carcinogenic or mutagenic potential or its potential to impair fertility.

Well then.

90% of those who die from influenza are over 70 years old. If you are 69 or younger, your chances of dying from the flu are something like 1 in 100,000. Meanwhile, there are close to 100 flu-vaccine deaths reported annually, and the reporting system (VAERS) is dysfunctional. The real number is likely over 1,000 annual flu-vaccine deaths.

We are talking about preventive medicine here. Shouldn't preventive medicine be MORE safe than the thing it is supposedly preventing?

Of course, we cannot give medical advice, our goal is simply to arm parents with knowledge...to present the failures that are most often omitted from the informed consent equation. To make others think.

On a personal level, because there are risks in administering vaccines, I would certainly never consider allowing any vaccine to be administered to my child without being present. Should there be an adverse reaction, I would want to be there to access it, comfort my child and see to it that he/she got the attention needed at that moment in time.

Remember to that neither drug companies nor the doctors/nurses etc. can be sued when something bad happens as a result of vaccination.

October 14, 2014

Remember this article we blogged earlier this month where McComb's local newspaper editor spoke in favor of vaccine mandates using much misinformation to justify his stance? Well, our CoDirector, Lindey Magee responded to him with her thoughts on the matter.

Editor Jack Ryan contacted her to let her know he would run her letter stating that while he does support mandatory vaccination, "I must say that 49 of them seems a bit much." He stated he thinks people should hear both sides. We agree! Vaccine propaganda and fear mongering has seen front and center stage for far too long. So long, in fact that we in Mississippi have found ourselves with no parental vaccine rights while the state continues to add mandates with no end in sight.

We are thankful that Lindey's thoughts on the matter were published and hope many of you will also send letters to your local paper. Just as her words prompted Mr. Ryan to consider that our current schedule may "a bit much." So can YOU spread this TRUTH in the same way.

And to those who do support mandatory vaccines, but think 49 doses a bit much, well, you can't have it both ways. You cannot sit by and tolerate a mandated vaccine program that shoves 49 doses of 15 vaccines into children before kindergarten, but follow that up with "it may be a bit much." or "I'll never let my child get the Gardasil or Flu or Ebola vaccine" ...because there is NOTHING stopping those from becoming mandated tomorrow.

It's too many too soon with more being added because collectively not enough have boldly stood and said NO MORE! I beg of you...GET INTERESTED; help us fight for our rights here in Mississippi. Our children deserve better.

Now, we urge you to get right on penning your own letter to your local newspaper. Lindey has sent many emails to her editor over the past year. Persistence pays off, and not much is more worthwhile than fighting for our rights to parent our children, right? That begins with educating people as to what is going on in our state. So many just aren't aware. Once they are though, they too are most typically NOT okay with Mississippi's archaic vaccine law.

October 04, 2014

It seems the Enterprise Journal's editor is not a fan of the idea of parental rights in Mississippi. McComb, Mississippi's local paper ran this editorial Friday:

Speaking on behalf of the nearly 2000 MS families that make up Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights, I am shaking my head. Surely if this editor sat down and spoke to just a few of the hundreds of families in Mississippi who are directly adversely affected by Mississippi's archaic vaccine law he would certainly see things in a new, more free-thinking light.

February 13, 2014

Last week, Brookhaven, Mississippi’s local paper, The Daily Leader published a compelling letter that Officer Joshua Laird had sent to Mississippi Representatives serving on the public health committee asking that the philosophical vaccine waiver bill be heard and allowed and voted on. Here is the text from that letter:

Dear Editor:

Below is a letter submitted to the House Health Committee in support of House Bill 1420, Mississippi Parents Vaccine Rights.

To Whom it may concern,

I am a proud Mississippian currently serving in the “World Largest Nuclear Navy.” I have deployed eight times throughout my thus-far 15-year career in the Navy. I intend to proudly serve the Navy for another eight years and ultimately retire. I willingly go into harm’s way to defend the freedoms of this, our great nation. I do so knowing with each passing deployment that there is a true potential that I may not return home to my family and love ones.

Why state this, you might ask? I perform this duty so that our civil liberties might be preserved. Civil liberties such as voting, the very liberty that resulted in your election to the prestigious position you now hold. That the will of the people might be represented by you, their elected officials, that they may be heard.

The great general, Robert E. Lee, once stated: “In all things, do you duty. You can do no more; you should wish to do no less.” Regardless of your personal opinion of the Confederate general you can value the wisdom of his words. So much so, it is the very value I try to instill in those that I have the great pleasure to serve alongside.

It is my desire, Lord willing, that after my retirement I may return home to live on the land that is my inheritance in Ruth. However, through diligent research and thoughtful prayer, it has been mine and my wife’s choice not to vaccinate our children, and could potentially quell these desires.

Having graduated from Enterprise High School, I put great value on the interaction and social development that one can only achieve through the public education system. It has been these life skills that have served me well in my service in the Navy. It has taught me how to communicate with my fellow man; how these diverse qualities enrich our Navy.

Currently, by law, my children will not be able to benefit from or capitalize on the these essential life skills. Not if we were to fulfill my desired to return to Mississippi after retirement. That is unless you, the people’s voice in our government, decide to propose House Bill 1420 to the House floor.

I implore you to abide by Gen. Lee’s counsel, “Do you duty.” If, at the end of the day, you have done so and the bill does not pass, you have done your due diligence. The great populace of Mississippi could ask you to do no more, nor wish you do any less.

I beseech to you think of all those Mississippians who have bled and died to preserve these just liberties before silencing the voice of the masses. Please, do not allow their pleas to fall upon deaf ears. Give the good people of Mississippi the choice to do what they believe is best for there children without the influence of government.

Proudly serving you and OUR nation,

Chief Petty Officer Joshua Laird

United States Navy, Active

The Daily Leader published our own letter to the editor this past tuesday.

We cannot imagine an elected official reading Joshua's plea without being compelled to in fact, "do his duty," and let the people's voice be heard. Shamefully, that did not happen.

The now approaching 1600 families-and growing that make up MPVR are waiting for an explanation from Representative Mims. We would appreciate an answer to the question posed in the open letter written to him last week. Don't the people whom he was elected to serve deserve an explanation for the blithe disregard of our pleas?

February 03, 2014

Mississippi Parents for Vaccine Rights learned over the weekend that the American Academy of Pediatrics, Mississippi Chapter sent out an "Urgent Legislative Alert" to MS pediatricians notifying them of the legislation we introduced this session.

AAP stated, "The anti-vaccine lobby has been quite strong at the State Capitol in recent days. It is imperative that legislators hear from physicians about the science behind why exemptions are a BAD idea for children and for public health."

Let us get something straight. MPVR is not anti-vaccine. Those of us lobbying the capital are letting legislators know that most parents desire to vaccinate...we just want and need options due to our out-of-control government vaccine program of 49 doses of 15 vaccines before kindergarten.

AAP is calling on it's physicians to call the members of the House Public Health Committee on their behalf stating that they oppose HB 1420 that would allow Mississippians vaccine choice that 49 other states have.

Please know, MPVR is actually pleased to hear of this email. As we grow closer to our goal of gaining this fundamental right to make health care decisions for our children in Mississippi, we know the medical and pharmaceutical establishments will begin to attack us. This is all part of the process and the above alert affirms that we are indeed getting closer to our goal of passing a philosophical vaccine exemption here in MS.

NOW, you can bet the Health Committee is hearing from pediatricians across the state today.WE MUST BE HEARD TOO! MPVR activists (that is YOU) are not collectively making enough calls. We need everyone making these calls to succeed!

A pdf will open in a new window. You will likely just be leaving a quick message stating, I support HB 1420 for a philosophical vaccine exemption with a secretary. It is a lot to ask of you to call all 28 of these legislators. If everyone gets involved, we can make an impression if each person calls Sam Mims, Toby Burton and then one or two other legislators on the list who are nearest to your hometown.

Thank you in advance for your support! We know we can count on those who desire vaccine options to actively fight along side with us to gain them.